Police Can Install Hidden Cameras on Private Property Without a Warrant, Judge “Rules”

By Bob Tuskin

Big brother is back at it. Some guy in a funny robe thinks its cool if the police have cameras spying on you without a warrant.

U.S. District Judge William Griesbach decided it was kosher to setup cameras in an open field of ganja. Mind you this was all PRIVATE property.

But no, the war on drugs is justifying yet another violation of our most basic rights.

The judge “ruled” the police were in the clear to set up several “covert digital surveillance cameras” in that field without judicial approval or the property owner’s permission, CNET reported.

A strange interpretation of the Fourth amendment is how this judge justified his blatant violation.

He  said, the Fourth Amendment only extends to a “home and land directly outside of it,” according to tech blog Ars Technica.

Real estate Aol continues with this to say;

The property where the cameras were installed is a wooded area distant from homes, with a locked gate and a “no trespassing” sign, which indicated an expectation of privacy, the suspects argued. Griesbach disagreed, saying in his ruling:

“Police officers would have to guess before every search whether landowners had erected fences sufficiently high, posted a sufficient number of warning signs, or located contraband in an area sufficiently secluded to establish a right of privacy.”

And since it’s legal for police to enter private property to collect evidence, it should be legal for them to set up cameras on private property for the same purpose, Griesbach said.

We know that the technology exists for the police to look into your homes, again without a warrant, and see anything they want. And of course everyone knows about the “naked body” scanners in the airports.

Paul Joseph Watson brings up some good points;

The use of such technology is not only a complete violation of the Fourth Amendment, it also eviscerates the notion of innocent until proven guilty, and therefore totally undermines everything America stands for.

Given the widespread abuse witnessed in the first eight months alone after the roll out of airport body scanners, Americans need to boycott the companies producing these systems and also resist their deployment at every turn.

I am so tired of Big Brother!

Post some solutions below. We need to figure out how to protect ourselves from this madness!